MARY JO SALTER
Guest Editor
The Best American Poetry 2024

 
 
  Mary Jo Salter

 


Mary Jo Salter was born in 1954 in Grand Rapids, Michigan, and grew up there, in Detroit, and in Baltimore. After graduation from Harvard, she took a two-year degree in English at New Hall (now Murray Edwards College), Cambridge. She was a staff editor at The Atlantic before moving to Kyoto, Japan, where she taught English for three years. Western Massachusetts, where she was Emily Dickinson Senior Lecturer at Mount Holyoke College, was her home for two decades. She is now Professor Emerita in The Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins University, where she taught from 2007 to 2022. Former poetry editor of The New Republic, coeditor of three editions of The Norton Anthology of Poetry (1996, 2005, and 2018), and editor of Amy Clampitt's selected and collected poems, Salter is also an essayist, a lyricist, and a children's book author. She is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Her nine collections of poetry, all published by Knopf, include most recently The Surveyors (2017) and Zoom Rooms (2022). She lives in Baltimore.

 
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